Gay marriage...UK

I don't like the idea of marriage either, but that aside there are gay couples who want to marry and are being stopped. I am not talking about myself.

 

That's a loaded question mainly because it would involve 50 different, often very different, answers. Here in CT they're required by law to ask in elections if there should be a state constitutional convention at least once every 20 years(nothing stops them from doing it more often if there's enough public support). Well they tried in 2008 during the election to call for a state constitutional convention, but it failed 39-61 in the vote, basically because everyone realized it was just a last ditch effort by opponents of gay marriage to change the state constitutional.


Also some people are really into marriage because
1. A lot of people just like it
2. It comes with a lot of legal and economic consequences that are generally beneficial to the couple.

 

I didn't know anything about it.
It seemed to me that if each state has their own constitution and documents crossed state line, whatever provisions were in the particular state would be applied.
The marriage would not be recognised if it wasn't within their constitution.
E.g:

The Texas Family code Sec. 6.204 (Divorce) (b) states that a union between members of the same-sex is void in the state.​

But I really don't know. This had me stumped.
Even with your response I'm really none the wiser.

 

I looked it up

40,000 civil partenships since 2005, so roughly 80000 people out 0f 62 million people in UK

or 0.13 %

To be conservative, if 2% of the population are gay

Then, again roughly, 1 in 15 or 20 or so gay people bother getting married, sorry civil-partnerized

or 1 in 50 if its 5%

So, basically, one big storm in a teacup




My opinion: Its a whole lot of horseshit, a topic that is way to politicised more for the benefit of other groups that have nothing to do with the gay community, it would appear we aint all that fussed

As an example: how many respondants in this thread are gay?

 

Imagine the figures if they could get married...work that out.